This comes as legislators from Prime Ministers Morgan Tsvangirais party vowed not to recognize strangers in the house.
Chisipite Senator Obert Gutu from the MDC-T told SW Radio Africa; Our position is very clear, we dont recognize the governors because we say they were illegally and unconstitutionally appointed. Senator Gutu said the power sharing deal made it clear executive authority lay in the President, the Prime Minister and the Cabinet.
Although other Senators from ZANU PF, the MDC-M and the MDC-T attended the session it seemed the re-appointed provincial governors were reluctant to be humiliated or heckled in parliament. It was not a showdown as such. Our stance is a principled one. We were not going to behave like renegades, Gutu told us.
If any of those purported governors were going to come to the Senate, Honourable Morgan Komichi (MDC-T) was going to read out a statement asking the President of the Senate to chuck them out because they would be strangers in the house, Gutu added. The Senate has since been adjourned to the 9th November.
Last month MDC-T legislators attending a two-day Pan African Parliament workshop in Victoria Falls, walked out during an address by Matabeleland North Governor Thokozile Mathuthu from ZANU PF. The MDC-T legislators, who included Innocent Gonese, Editor Matamisa and Thabitha Khumalo, said they did not recognize Mathuthu as her term of office expired in August this year.
Last week a furious Tsvangirai addressed a press conference at which he berated Mugabe for betraying him in attempts to implement the power sharing accord. He vowed his party would not recognize the governors, ambassadors and judges named by Mugabe, without any consultation with him as the Prime Minister.
Tsvangirai has also advised the United Nations, the European Union, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland and South Africa to reject the diplomatic credentials of the ambassadors appointed by Mugabe.
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